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June 16, 2001

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle and quiz man Will Shortz.
•Charlie Pierce, writer, Esquire Magazine
•Adam Felber, writer and performer
•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section reporter

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
Travel tips for a travelling neophyte; Oops, we prayed too hard!; The father's day gift that went wrong.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
Senator Daschle gets a lesson in metaphors, holding hands in the West Wing, you want a silencer with that burger?, the newest addition to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
How to save the Earth in a billion years, Tokyo gets the Tippi Hedren treatment, and the lunch meat that ate Tokyo.

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
New York Times and Weekend Edition Sunday puzzlemaster Will Shortz plays a game called: "No dahlink, I'm Zsa, Zsa, she's Eva. The wacky world of the Gabor sisters.

Week in Review (14.4 | 28.8)
How to see a Stealth; toward a more lovable acronym.

Round 3

Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
Trapped by my celebrity without a brewski, a Wait, Wait goodbye to a man with blue shoes, the tainted pork theory.

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
HMM..THIS FLOWER SMELLS LIKE CALVIN KLEIN'S OBSESSION. Man affecting nature.

Lightning Fill in the Blank (14.4 | 28.8)
The rest of the week's news that we can fit.

Panelist Predictions (14.4 | 28.8)
What will Phil Bronstein get next Father's Day?

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